[Geysers] Unnamed geyser on Geyser Hill near Sponge (Schwarz)

[Mary Beth Schwarz]

     Thanks Dave.  Today 19 August Dick Powell saw eruptions of what he
called on the radio as "webcam geyser" at 0947, 1024, 12__, 1238, 1328, and
1338.

     Mary Beth Schwarz

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 11:43 AM, David Monteith <dmonteit at comcast.net>wrote:

> Saturday I noted the UNNG near Sponge for the first time in a while but
> then again, I haven't had the time to review the webcam stream very
> closely for the past week or so.  Based on Mary Beth and Dicks' report,
> I just reviewed the stream again.  The camera wasn't pointed at the area
> at 0953 but it did catch the eruption at 1221.  It is the same feature
> reported earlier.
>
> For much of the day the section of the hill in question was not visible
> but even so, I did observe 10 eruptions.  The durations for all of them
> were about the same as reported by Mary Beth and Dick though many
> appeared to be a few feet taller than the 1221 eruption.
>
> The eruptions I found on the stream from on August 18, 2012 were at:
> 1044
> 1221
> 1403
> 1414
> 1424
> 1509
> 1659
> 1815
> 1828
> 1853
>
> Note: The stream is currently corrupted by a bad header (key frame).
> I've corrected the header in order to get proper times.  Eruptions times
> obtained from the corrected stream have been confirmed with reports from
> the park.  Bad headers occur about once a month.  I believe they occur
> when the stream has been running too long causing an error when one of
> the parameters in the header gets too big (possibly a frame counter).
> To fix the problem the NPS administrator has to access the stream server
> which will hopefully happen soon.
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Sat, 2012-08-18 at 21:23 -0500, Mary Beth Schwarz wrote:
> >
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> >
> >
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> >      Today 18 August 2012 Dick Powell saw two eruptions of the unnamed
> > geyser on Geyser Hill near Sponge at 0953 and 1221.  Each eruption was
> > two bursts, and he has pictures of the one at 1221 taken from the
> > boardwalk  near Sponge.  Height estimate is 4'-5' with 2 bursts of
> > short 5-10 seconds? duration.  The feature is about 2/5 of the
> > distance between Plate and Boardwalk (closer to Plate) , and Dick
> > located a hole on the UGB Geologic map that may be the location of the
> > feature.  I saw the second eruption from the porch of the Lower Store
> > today.  Dick and I also saw it erupt in July but did not know the
> > exact location.
> >
> >      This does seem to be what Scott Bryan described that he observed
> > in 2010.
> >
> >      Did the webcam folks see these or other eruptions of it today?
> >
> >      Mary Beth Schwarz
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